Fabulous Fashion Inventions

From the Series Awesome Inventions You Use Every Day

  • Interest Level: Grade 3 - Grade 6
  • Reading Level: Grade 4

Did you realize that swimming suits used to weigh 22 pounds (about 10 kilograms)? Or that the first people to wear high heels were French royalty (even the king!) in the 1500s? Get ready to learn the amazing stories behind inventions you use every day. From the society woman who invented bras to the Swiss inventor who came up with the idea for Velcro, you’ll find out how we got some of our favorite fashion inventions.

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Interest Level Grade 3 - Grade 6
Reading Level Grade 4
Genre Science
Category STEM, STEM: Engineering
Copyright 2014
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Imprint Lerner Publications ™
Language English
Number of Pages 32
Publication Date 2013-08-01
Reading Counts! Level 4.3
Text Type Informational/Explanatory
BISACS JNF006030, JNF061010, JNF059000
Dewey 746.9'2
Graphics Full-color illustrations
Dimensions 7 x 10
Lexile 700
ATOS Reading Level 4.5
Accelerated Reader® Quiz 159725
Accelerated Reader® Points 1.0
Features Bibliography/further reading, Glossary, Index, Photo captions, Reviewed, Sidebars, Table of contents, Teaching Guides, and eSource

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School Library Journal, Series Made Simple

“This set is a browsers’ delight as well as a rich resource for science or pop-history report writers.” —School Library Journal, Series Made Simple